Wynne Neilly (born 1990) is a Canadian artist and photographer based in Toronto, focused on photographing queer and transgender people.

Neilly attended the Image Arts program at Ryerson University,^[1] graduating in 2012.^[2] He began creating works of portraiture in the early 2010s.^[1] He is based in Toronto.^[3]

Neilly is queer^[4] and transmasculine.^[5] In 2018, he described his maleness as "really only based on my physical appearance", stating that "there is a lot more to me and my gender identity."^[6]

Neilly's work is largely focused on exploring gender and sexuality,^[3] and specifically "the queer and trans body".^[7]

In 2014, when he was 24, a photo taken by him was on the cover of Original Plumbing. The photo was part of a larger series titled Female to "Male", focused on gender transitioning^[4] and specifically on Neilly's own transition.^[3]

In 2015, Neilly was the winner of the "Flash Forward" photography competition hosted by the Magenta Foundation.^[8]

Elliot Page requested that Neilly be the one to photograph him for the cover of Time in 2021 after Page's transition, because he wanted a photographer who was also transgender.^[1] When Neilly received an email from a Time photo editor, he initially thought it was fake, having believed that the COVID-19 pandemic ended his career.^[5] He photographed Page on March 5, 2021, for the March 29 – April 5 issue of Time; it was the first time a transgender man was featured on the magazine's cover. He later told Ryerson University's publication that "[it] really meant the world to me to be able to help [Page] tell his story".^[2]

Neilly has cited Catherine Opie as his "number one photographic inspiration", along with other inspirations including Cassils, Michelle Groskopf, and Robert Mapplethorpe.^[9]

Neilly's work has been exhibited at the International Center of Photography, The Annenberg Space for Photography, Southern Norway Art Museum,^[1] and the Ryerson Image Centre.^[3]

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